Shoutout to everyone who decided to romance Triss and turn down the opportunity to get back together with Yenn in Witcher 3 because Triss is a more supportive partner for Geralt and his relationship with Yenn is toxic. 

There are bad movies at all kinds of lengths, but I’d argue that there are a lot of movies that could be good or even great with tighter editing and a more clear and concise idea of what the director is trying to say that are instead just so-so. To go back to Don’t Look Up and Adam McKay’s particular weaknesses as a…

I’d argue that plenty of TV shows, especially streaming ones that are released all at once for binging, are poorly paced and badly in need of more ruthless editing, but setting that argument aside I think there’s something about chapters that makes it easier to power through something. A 400-page thriller where no…

Fine, it’s my regular temperature take then. I stand by my opinion that a solid majority of movies that are made each year do not need to be longer than 90 minutes, and that in particular modern comedies and (for lack of a better term) comedy-adjacent movies like this are too often bloated and self-indulgent. On that…

145 minutes?! Movie bloat is completely out of control. My hot take is that 60-70% of movies can be competently told in 90 minutes, another 20-ish% told in 2 hours, and very, very few movies really need to be longer than 2 hours. In particular there have been vanishingly few comedies - no matter how dark or satirical…

I enjoyed Shang-Chi but I hope Marvel puts more effort into special effects next time. The climax of the movie just looked like absolute dogshit and it’s turning into a real problem for the MCU that their CGI so often looks cheap and lazy. It’s inexcusable with the amount of money they spend on these things. Better…

If a friend of yours, who you know is closeted and has been violently assaulted because of their homosexuality in the past, asks you to go on stage and tell some funny stories about them and you respond by getting up and essentially saying “isn’t it funny that this queen likes men and makeup more than I do” yes it is…

I mean, doing an entire set of homophobic jokes about Shy Baldwin in front of his home audience is easily the nastiest, most selfish thing Midge has done so far, so I really hope that the new season grapples with the fallout of that instead of just trying to sweep it under the rug. 

I’ll echo some of the other comments that I feel like the character arcs (with the possible exception of Roman becoming more and more vicious as the show goes on) are becoming a bit repetitive and need to start heading toward an endgame if the show is really only going to run for 4 (maybe 5) seasons as the showrunners…

I got about halfway through the first episode last night, and I think it’s probably best viewed in smaller chunks over time rather than trying to power through one full episode a night for 3 nights in a row. As my wife put it, this is a vibes documentary rather than a narrative one, it just happens to be much, much…

Ok dude. Joe Rogan is still America’s leading podcast dumbass and deserves to be ridiculed at every opportunity.

A sitcom that’s primarily set in a bar?! Truly there is nothing more millennial than this, and there are no beloved boomer TV shows that this could be compared to.

(1) Ivermectin, including the version prescribed to humans, has zero effect whatsoever on Covid. Taking it in place of a vaccine is a moronic thing to do and is akin to insisting that taking Tylenol can cure cancer just because it can also relieve bodily inflammation.

It’s pretty clear that Lorne Michaels helps current/former SNL cast members talk through pitches they have and then vouches for them with studio execs to help get it greenlit. Which is one of the main ways you get an executive producer credit on a TV show. This is something that many, many former SNL cast members have…

There’s plenty of blame to go around here, but I honestly believe that the biggest share of the blame lies with Showtime’s executives. They, like every other premium/prestige TV channel, greenlight shows that realistically only have 3-4 seasons worth of story but then they push for those shows to go on and on and on…

I couldn’t believe it was true when I first heard that they didn’t plan the trilogy’s story ahead of time and it still blows me away. Disney spent billions of dollars to acquire the franchise and then had this opportunity to make a new trilogy that was guaranteed to be financially successful and could be really…

I mean, I’m definitely going to watch this movie and I’ll try to withhold judgment until I do, but based on the trailer it sure seems like the extent of the accent work was Ridley Scott sitting all the actors down on their first day together and saying, “We all know what Italians sound like, right? No need to workshop…

Kendall scenes are pretty much always cringe (the desperate desire to please mixed with viciously turning on people when they don’t give him the validation he needs, the big coked up energy even when he’s sober, the self-loathing, etc etc etc) but this season in particular has been brutal to watch. 

Fair, but I still think it’s incredibly unlikely that we don’t get another Iron Man movie where the guy in the suit is a billionaire industrialist named Tony Stark within the next 15 years. 

It’s pretty clearly where the MCU is heading. Not in the next couple of years, but everything with the multiverse is going to lead to something like a live action Secret Wars that results in a rebooted film universe in which the X-Men and the Fantastic Four co-exist with the Avengers, just like in the comics. When…